Ellyssa

About Ellyssa

Ellyssa is the Director of Information Technology at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 35 books including Law Librarianship in the Digital Age for which she won the AALL's 2014 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award. Her ten-book technology series, The Tech Set won the ALA's Best Book in Library Literature Award in 2011. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Pratt Institute, and an international conference speaker.

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Bryan R. Dunlap, author of The Boys from Canaan: Making it and Losing It in the New Republic, a book about the lives of Thomas and Henry Warner is utilizing the collection at The New York Law Institute to research 19th century historical topics for his next book.

Last week NYLI hosted LLAGNY’s Deliberate Solos event titled Current Developments in Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency Regulation with engaging presentations from speakers Chris Mitchell and Courtney Toiaivao. NY State MCLE credit was provided by the LLAGNY Outreach Programs Committee, which is certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board to […]

By Ellyssa|April 3rd, 2019|New at NYLI|Comments Off on Current Developments in Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency Regulation Event at NYLI

The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: A Resource for Attorneys, Law Firms and Business Professionals, Second Edition is published by the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force which is composed of ABA members with expertise in cybersecurity as […]

Just a friendly reminder to get your entry in for our online legal Peeps contest! We invite you, our members to get creative and design your best law-related Peeps diorama for our online contest and send us your photo. What’s at stake? Well, not just props […]

The New York Law Institute now offers members a variety of resources and services including 2 eBooks collections providing access to over 160,000 eBook titles. We offer the entire West Academic Nutshells series in eBook format, hundreds of ABA titles, and Mathew Bender legal treatises. We also offer access to valuable electronic resources such as […]

Inspired by “‘A Day in My Law Library Life,’ Circa 1997,” this compilation featured in the latest issue of Law Library Journal by Scott Frey collects descriptions of a day in the lives of law librarians in 2018. The descriptions provide a current snapshot and historical record of the law library profession, with similarities […]

We are very pleased to announce that we now have access to the GAO (Government Accountability Office) reports via HeinOnline. We make HeinOnline available to NYLI members on-site and also remotely to firms of 50 or fewer attorneys, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. GAO’s reports and testimonies give Congress, federal agencies, and the public […]

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